Chemical synthesis of perfectly isotactic and high melting bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) from bio-sourced racemic cyclic diolide

Bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) possesses physical and mechanical properties suitable for substituting high-performance petroleum plastics but current production is costly and slow. Here the authors produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) with similar properties via ring-opening polymerization of bio-deri...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyan Tang, Eugene Y.-X. Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04734-3